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Is this all that's left?asks my son, just dropping in.The inlaid wooden chestmy father made with lovewhen they were first marriedserved in four houses..
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It's as if nothing's changed:they go gallopingout,trample through the seagulls' camp,secure slowly round and close corrals.
Young manes flutter, head..
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When, without stopping, an expresstrain has hurtled through a station,the commuters do not perceivehow much older the people oppositegrew while their ..
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From the starlit lakea suggestion of mist drifts towards the benchwhere I sit every time.I'm slow and often late, but she forgives me,graciously as al..
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Gary was going to Grenoble,dropping me off in Lyon.It wasn't the Boulevard Périfériquethat terrified me in '64,it was his nerves.Back fo..
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"Are your parents still alive?"Mary asked, in May 1996.There was a sort of yellowy glow in the light brown sky. The day would be hot and sticky."Expec..
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Our train is delayed,
passenger taken ill at Liverpool Street;
we have to stand behind the yellow line,
says the announcement,
omitting the de..
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I kept asking myself why. Why was I going back? Would you? Will you? Why?The M1 and then the M6, mile after mile, and this question kept nagging me, l..
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“Endless. The possibilities are endless.” I like it. In fact, I tell my wife. She claims she noticed it first. We’ll never agree. Ou..
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It was a case of just sitting tight and waiting. Eventually the words would come. I was going to be a writer - just like that. I would write a story, ..
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